The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-moat-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, School Lane, Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding
- OS grid reference
- TL 581 099
- Coordinates
- 51.7655, 0.29033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th or 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottage, consisting of one storey and attics. It features a large thatched gabled dormer in a half-hipped thatched roof, along with a taller modern thatched extension at the rear. There are also modern lean-to extensions at the back. The cottage has modern casement windows with leaded lights and an off-centre brick stack above a 17th century fireplace. Inside, there are some stop-chamfered beams and arch bracing in the north end wall.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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